Bad news for Lalit Modi as Vanuatu PM orders cancellation of his passport due to…, where will he go now?
Prime Minister emphasised that holding a Vanuatu passport is a privilege, not a right, and applicants must seek citizenship for legitimate reasons.
Port Vila: In fresh concern for fugitive businessman and Indian Premier League (IPL) founder Lalit Modi, the Vanuatu Executive has cancelled the passport issued to him. Vanuatu High Minister Jotham Napat urged the Citizenship Commission to execute Modi’s passport, announcing he is making an strive to again away from extradition. Final Friday, Lalit Modi submitted an software program to the Indian High Commission in London to resign his passport. He is reported to maintain got citizenship from Vanuatu, an island nation within the South Pacific. He fled from India in 2010 and is believed to had been residing in London since then.
The legitimate press begin issued by **the Vanuatu High Minister’s station of job said, “I undoubtedly maintain urged the Citizenship Commission to execute the Vanuatu passport issued to Lalit Modi following novel revelations in global media.”
“I undoubtedly had been made conscious within the previous 24 hours that Interpol twice rejected Indian authorities’ requests to wretchedness an alert ogle on Lalit Modi which potential of lack of substantive judicial evidence. The kind of alert would maintain triggered an automatic rejection of Mr Modi’s citizenship software program,” the assertion said.
The begin further said that PM Napat necessary that possessing the Vanuatu passport is a privilege, no longer a merely and “applicants must stumble on citizenship for legit reasons.”
“None of those legit reasons encompass making an strive to again away from extradition, which the novel details introduced to gentle clearly veil was once Modi’s intension,” the assertion said.
The billionaire fugitive is wished in India for alleged financial irregularities. Earlier, Lalit Modi filed an software program with the Indian High Commission in London to resign his Indian passport.
It is to be necessary that, Lalit Modi is most wished in India for financial irregularities. He is wished within the nation over an alleged involvement within the embezzlement of crores throughout his stint as IPL commissioner.
(with PTI inputs)
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